Amit saves the day for Pinoys in China Open

Rubilen Amit remained perfect two games into her campaign in the China Open. Jerome Ascano

RUBILEN Amit remained the only Filipino still unbeaten in what has so far been a lackluster campaign for the Philippines in the China Open in Shanghai on Friday.

Amit defeated Wei Tzu-chien, 7-5, on Friday to keep her perfect slate in a fitting follow-up to her 7-1 win over Wu Tzi-ting Thursday.

Dennis Orcollo, Carlo Biado, and Iris Ranola all suffered losses, but staved off elimination despite being just a loss away from an early exit.

Orcollo defeated Nick Van Den Berg, 9-7, on Friday in Group F of the one-loss side of the bracket to remain in contention. The former world no. 1 was beaten by Gerwen Andreas, 8-9, in the tournament opener.

Biado, meanwhile, trounced Alok Kumar, 9-1, in Group E and bounced back after a 7-9 defeat against Filipino-Canadian Alex Pagulayan.

Corteza, meanwhile, defeated Naoyuki Oi, 9-3, in Group G a day after suffering a defeat against Marcus Chamat.

In the distaff side, Ranola opened with a 7-2 win over Jiang Teng but fell against world No. 2 Shiming Chen, 4-7.